Climate Justice and Industrial Transformation

There are no jobs on a dead planet.

We must decarbonise our world by 2050. This requires major emissions reductions and universal access to breakthrough technologies.

Unions want a global agreement implemented on the basis of just transition principles and plans: national and industry/enterprise plans that protect and create new jobs by investing in the necessary industrial transformation.

This is the most significant challenge the world will face in the next thirty years, but we must start now or we will lose the war on climate change with horrendous consequences for all working people and their communities.

The ITUC will work with affiliates to mobilise for a global agreement that frames the possibility of industrial transformation and guarantees a ‘just transition’.

The ITUC affiliates are equally committed to organising the workers in emerging green economy jobs in both the formal and the informal economy.

News Climate Justice and Industrial Transformation

Trade unions expressed concern at the closing of the annual gathering of the United Nations climate change convention in Bonn over the limited progress made in building the strong governance, oversight and action which will prevent runaway climate change.

The UN climate talks in Bonn open this week to discuss how to deliver the promises of the historic 2015 Paris Agreement to stay below a 2°C increase in average temperatures, and ensure a Just Transition to a zero-carbon future for workers and their communities.

G7 Labour Ministers are meeting in Turin (29 September – 1 October) to address the Future of Work as global anxieties about jobs and rising inequality between the one per cent richest people and the rest of the population continue to grow.

Following the announcement by the President Trump that the US would withdraw from fulfilling its international obligations under the Paris Climate Agreement, the international trade union movement has expressed its concerns for the impacts delayed climate action in the US will have on working people there and across the globe.

Aura Lolita Chavez of the Council of the K’iches peoples and Francisco Rocael Mateo Morales from the Huehuetenango Parliament denounce the economic and environmental pillage being caused by the Marlin gold mine. To the detriment of the indigenous peoples whose cosmic vision is in jeopardy.

ITUC and Sustainlabour just released these four short videos showing union’s commitment to fight against climate change. Please circulate them and post them on your website! Join us in making Copenhagen a success for the planet, a success for workers and a success for social justice!

ITUC and Sustainlabour just released these four short videos showing union’s commitment to fight against climate change. Please circulate them and post them on your website! Join us in making Copenhagen a success for the planet, a success for workers and a success for social justice!